[leafnode-list] [Leafnode-announce] Leafnode 1.9.54.rel released (STABLE) - bugfixes (texpire)

[Matthias Andree]

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                 leafnode 1.9.54.rel has been released.
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                    http://leafnode.sourceforge.net/

Leafnode 1.9.54.rel fixes some bugs in texpire and fetchnews and
introduces a new configuration variable, timeout_lock (in the
configuration file), or LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT via environment.

All users of older leafnode-1.9 series versions should update.


A binary RPM for Linux with glibc 2.2 and i486 or compatible processors
is provided. It also requires a package providing libpcre.so.0 and xinetd.


Leafnode 1.9.54 is or will become available in .tar.bz2 format from these sites:

o SourceForge -- also has binary RPM and upgrade source patch
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/leafnode/
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57767&release_id=239678
   rsync://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/leafnode/

   Patch:
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57767&release_id=239679

o Dortmund University -- also has binary RPM, .tar.gz and upgrade source patch
   http://home.pages.de/~mandree/leafnode/
   rsync://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/leafnode-1/

o IBiblio/MetaLab (will take some days to pick up) -- has FTP sites
   http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html
   Check the system/news/transport directory

Not all sites carry all files, the .tar.bz2 is available everywhere,
the upgrade patch is available everywhere except IBiblio.

Below are file checksums and the NEWS file excerpt, with changes since
the previous release.  The full ChangeLog ships with the tarballs and
can be viewed at http://home.pages.de/~mandree/leafnode/ChangeLog.txt

Have fun,
Matthias Andree, Leafnode maintainer

SHA1 checksums:
a7ffc3305be9cda852693eab47b4d923ae920bf1 *leafnode-1.9.54.rel.tar.bz2
e33382aaab107fed105f10e54a1f20c24feba5cd *leafnode-1.9.54.rel.tar.gz
f5e628e96c8e386127a77b5802f90d9f0a3b3e23 *upgrade-1.9.53-to-1.9.54.diff.gz

MD5 checksums:
3ef40b42437940df69504770f30eb82f *leafnode-1.9.54.rel.tar.bz2
9e9c0d2d1108594c81a5fc384f9c529c *leafnode-1.9.54.rel.tar.gz
ab26b4e1f954fd6fe68832c3f99d90e4 *upgrade-1.9.53-to-1.9.54.diff.gz

File sizes:
705724 leafnode-1.9.54.rel.tar.bz2
854322 leafnode-1.9.54.rel.tar.gz
 19006 upgrade-1.9.53-to-1.9.54.diff.gz

NEWS since previous release:
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### INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
- - Consistency: The lockfile timeout for checkgroups has changed to five
  seconds, checkgroups used to wait indefinitely.

### BUGFIXES
- - Bugfix: fetchnews and texpire would delete a lockfile held by another
  process when there were problems reading the configuration file.
- - Bugfix: when groupexpire settings were used, their memory was leaked at
  program exit.
- - Robustness: texpire is a lot more careful about mids files. Johannes Berg
  reported aborts related to corrupt mids files. mids files are removed at
  start of any leafnode program.
- - Documentation: Some minor formatting problems in the manual pages were
  corrected. Reported by Laurent Fousse.

### CHANGES
- - Logging: the number of duplicates that texpire has deleted is now printed.
- - Feature: The maximum time that programs wait for a lock file can now be
  configured through "timeout_lock" in the configuration file and overridden
  by the LN_LOCK_TIMEOUT environment variable, to simplify running fetchnews
  and texpire from a cron job. A workaround was suggested by Dirk-Lüder Kreie.
- - Feature: texpire has a new "-r" (repair) option that checks harder whether
  the hard links are correct.
- - Documentation: INSTALL reminds the user to erase the distributor package
  first before doing a source install.
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